Z Volume 19 Number 10 1727 Lenasia 1820 011854-4543 011854-7886 0 SHAWAAL 1437/2016 Under The Shadow Of The Sword Once again the brightness of the day of destroyed mazaars like their mentors did. For Eid appears. Another Ramadaan is gone, laden them Jannatul Baqi was not of any special with prayers and laments, again a visitor whose value! Have you heard the rumour, they departure was inevitable. would gladly demolish the Roza Mubarak, with the Holy Prophet (r), and his two Ramadaan. Not the best in terms of companions removed and placed in happenings around the world. Challenges and unmarked graves? escalating hardship our less fortunate brothers have had to face. War - torn Syria, Iraq , Worldly kings, usurpers, sponsors of Afghanistan, Yemen, Palestine, all unsettled corrupt beliefs, they are largely responsible for with political issues and strife. Clearly, muslims the pathetic situation of the Ummah today. If are the highlighted target of terror and misery they were true leaders they would have orchestrated to shake the spirit of the ummah worked in favour of uniting the Muslims. They into a state of fear, and submission to the satanic would have spoken out fearlessly against the status quo of a new world order. enemies of the muslim world, like Gaddafi did, or even some of previous Iranian leaders. A few years ago, it was mayhem and Their mountains of wealth would have funded destruction in Ghaza. After Afghanistan and muslim welfare at both political and social Iraq, who could have guessed the turnaround in level, until the world showed them respect. But fortune of Syria, Egypt, Libya, or Yemen? they sponsor conflict within Islam. They fund Turkey could be next. the enemy. They have redesigned the ISIS has become the most despised beautiful religion according to their whims and group unanimously disowned by the muslim narrow understanding. Their service to Islam world, with their rumoured Zionist connection. is based on this refurbishment of Islamic Killing civilians, destroying assets and infra - ideals, how they have desecrated sacred sites structure, openly emulating the US and Israel to make way for towers, palaces, and when they imploded Baghdad and Ghaza to the skyscrapers. They have looted the batul-maal ground. of the ummah, turning Haj and Umrah into a Disney - like dollar mine, added to their oil And now they are targeting Turkey. The revenue. Who put them in power? It was west have always feared Turkey. The nightmare neither by vote nor muslim consensus, but by of the Ottoman superpower waiting to the colonial sewage of the British that left them regenerate. The plan is apparent. Their sinister there to serve their kaafir interests. agencies have planted the seeds. They will plant bombs. Plant disunity. Leave a stable country in May Allah free us from them, and the grips of xenophobic anarchy. return Arabia and Hijaz to the ummah, a united ummah. May this ummah regroup and Alarm bells ringing! Will the trumpet be spearhead an awakening, to honour the sounded in our lifetime?...Trumpet!... Oops amaanah of Allah and His Rasool (r), until music is haraam! what has been foretold comes to be! Eid Mubarak. They killed Amjad Sabri. They have Page 2 HAZRAT 'ABD ALLAH IBN-E-ABBAS t Hazrat 'Abd Allah Ibn-e-Abbas t was a cousin of He was often known as a 'sage in a young age'. the Holy Prophet r about 50 years younger to him in Hazrat Umar t held him in great esteem and used to age. He was born in Mecca, in 619 A.D., three years tell people "he is the most learned of you all". His son, before the Hijra, and was a boy of 13 when the Holy Ibn 'Umar t, another learned and eminent Prophet r left this world. But he benefitted by the Companion, used to say about him, "the most inspiring and glorifying company of the Holy learned man among the followers of Muhammad r Prophet r, even at this young age for about eight in the Book that was revealed to Muhammad r." years, and received the early impressions of his Hazrat Ibn Mas'ud t called him "the best spiritual training and character-formation from the commentator of the Holy Quran." And there are Holy Prophet r himself, which developed further in many other similar expressions of the Companions the company of his eminent Companions t. t of the Holy Prophet r in recognition of his worth and profound learning. He was the authority for Abdullah related the following incident about 1660 traditions of the Holy Prophet, r. himself: "Once the Prophet r, was on the point of performing wudu. I hurried to get water ready for His reputation as a scholar and expounder of the him. He was pleased with what I was doing. As he Holy Quran and of traditions and the decisions of the was about to begin Salaat, he indicated that I should Caliphs (RA) stood so high that crowds flocked from stand at his side. However, I stood behind him. all parts of the Muslim world to hear his discourses. When the Salaat was finished, he turned to me & He gave public lectures one day in a week, on the said: 'What prevented you from being at my side, O interpretation of the Quran; another day, on law; the Abdullah?' 'You are too illustrious & too great in my third, on grammar; the fourth, on the history of the eyes for me to stand side by side with you,' I replied. Arabs, and the fifth on poetry. He gave an impulse to Ibn-e-Abbas was known as 'Hibr-al-Umma' or 'the the study and preservation of pre-Islamic Arab Doctor' or 'Rabbi of the Community'. He was also literature and history by frequently quoting verses called 'the Sea' for the vastness of his knowledge. from the ancient poets to explain and illustrate the difficult passages of the Holy Quran. He possessed a t The Holy Prophet's wife, Hazrat Maimuna , was a strong memory and remembered a vast material by maternal aunt of Ibn-e-Abbas, and he had the heart. opportunity of observing how devotedly and steadfastly the Holy Prophet r spent the greater part Ibn-e-Abbas had gained considerable social and of the night in Tahajjud prayer; whenever he was in political prominence during the reign of Hazrat Hazrat Maimuna's house. Once he got up to join the Uthman t. The Caliph entrusted him with the Holy Prophet r in Tahajjud, and had the personal leadership of the pilgrimage in the year 35 A.H., and experience of feeling how the Holy Prophet r it was to this that he owed his fortunate absence from prolonged his qiyam (standing position), so much so Madina when the Caliph was murdered. He then that Ibn-e-Abbas felt quite exhausted. The Holy went over to Hazrat Ali t, who frequently employed Prophet r noticed a lot of promise in this young lad him as an ambassador and appointed him governor and blessed him. He also prayed to Allah for the of Basra. In his old age, he was deprived of his grant of unusual knowledge and wisdom to Ibn-e- eyesight, and he settled down in Taif, where he died Abbas and deep insight into the meanings of the in the year 68 A.H. at the age of seventy-one. Hazrat Book of God. This prayer was no doubt granted and Ibn-e-Abbas did not owe his fame to his political Ibn-e-Abbas became a very learned man at a very activity, but to his greatly admired knowledge of young age. profane and sacred tradition, of jurisprudence and exegesis of the Holy Quran. 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